1739 in Norway

Events in the year 1739 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Christian VI.

Events

 * Public schools for all children, from the age of seven, are established by law.
 * Christian Rantzau is deposed as Steward of Norway, and the position was vacant until 1750.

Arts and literature

 * Nordlands Trompet by Petter Dass is published posthumously.

Births

 * 10 August – Peder Aadnes, rural painter (died 1792).

Full date missing

 * Nicolai Benjamin Aall, landowner and timber merchant (died 1798).

Deaths

 * 1 December – Hartvig Jentoft, merchant (born 1693).